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Directed by Rachel E. Flynn ’09 and produced by Alison H. Rich ’09, “Bent” is playwright Martin Sherman’s best-known work, chronicling the story of three homosexual men who begin the play in Berlin. By the end of the first act, they are in Dachau...
...Playwright Jessica Hagedorn and songwriter Mark Bennett insisted their story would neither glamorize Cunanan nor present a sanctimonious message about the demons that drove the troubled young man to murder. Rather, they have said, the play is a look at race, sexuality, culture, class and the nation's fascination with celebrity...
...Fate is a playwright who writes final acts that are often horribly abrupt. Shame on Fate for taking George when he was still at the top of his illustrious game, with so many other complex characters to morph into...
...spelled his name: the only surviving examples of his handwriting are six scraggly signatures spelled several different ways. Those pro-Will say that some of Shakespeare's contemporaries mention him in their writings; the naysayers counter that they only refer to him as an actor, never explicitly as a playwright. (Read "Is This What Shakespeare Looked Like...
...small-town actor without a university education would be familiar with. As the Declaration says, "scholars know nothing about how he acquired the breadth and depth of knowledge displayed in the works." And so doubting scholars look to well-traveled writers and aristocrats - essayist Francis Bacon; poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe; theater patron Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford - as the more likely candidates...